Thursday, February 12, 2009

I think that the tv conversion fiasco is a social commentaryabout the ability of Americans to plan.

For over a year we were told that the tv conversion would take placeearly this year. An entire year of hearing commercials to get aconverter box, get a coupon for the converter box, buy a new tv...and soon. But now the date has arrived and somehow after a year of warningsthe public is blindsided by the news that their analogue television setwill no longer work.

Then people are complaining about the money it will cost to buy aconverter box. Seriously?? The cheapest converter box I found was about50 dollars. With the coupon you can get giving you 40 dollars off, thebox will cost you 10 bucks. Do you mean to tell me that in an entireyear, you can't scrape together 10 dollars?

What the hell is wrong with people. They are whining the governmentneeds to provide them with the converter box. Why doesn't thegovernment also step in and provide them with a 42" plasma tv and a 3bedroom house to watch it in?